Month: January 2015

Started using more than one gmail account now (without forwarding because I need separate inboxes) but send email so common addresses, so I wanted to sync my contacts. The solution I settled with was using Shared Groups that can (surprise) share a contact group across accounts. The least problematic approach (to avoid duplicates) seems to be to create a new group, share that, and put any contacts that need to be shared into that group.

OfflineIMAP (github, website) – a great way to migrate email (docs here. Just moved my email from my webhost IMAP-server to a gmail account.

I had some problems connecting to gmail until I enabled “less secure apps” to access my account at https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps. Also, Gmail automatically blocked my first access, so I recieved an email that I had to respond to (click a link and verify that it actually was me that tried to access my email – good feature).

Also, OfflineIMAP might complain about unknown certificate fingerprints and print them out. I just added them to the servers that needed them and hoped nobody had manipulated them.